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Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

Sometimes just getting out of the house and doing something you haven't done in a long time (or never done!) can open up the doors to musical inspiration.

As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.

For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things that you've felt. It's kind of impossible not to unless you're writing a song and there's an exact scenario that you're trying to write a song for.

If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.

I can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music.